The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Volume 2G. Long, 1830 |
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Pagina 20
... believe this people were much to be pitied , for not understanding , or 1ather , for despising the use of gold and silver ? Is it not to be wished , that those metals had for ever lain buried in the bowels of the earth , and that they ...
... believe this people were much to be pitied , for not understanding , or 1ather , for despising the use of gold and silver ? Is it not to be wished , that those metals had for ever lain buried in the bowels of the earth , and that they ...
Pagina 21
... believe , that the pencils which drew so beautiful a picture were not free from partiality and flattery ; and that both Justin and Horace have decked them with virtues that did not belong to them . But all antiquity agrees in giving the ...
... believe , that the pencils which drew so beautiful a picture were not free from partiality and flattery ; and that both Justin and Horace have decked them with virtues that did not belong to them . But all antiquity agrees in giving the ...
Pagina 22
... believe so , that you look upon yourself as invested with sovereign power , only to make your people happy . What exquisite joy must it be to so great a prince as you are , to be the source of so many blessings ; and under the shadow of ...
... believe so , that you look upon yourself as invested with sovereign power , only to make your people happy . What exquisite joy must it be to so great a prince as you are , to be the source of so many blessings ; and under the shadow of ...
Pagina 26
... believe , that he set an extraordinary value upon a friend of his fidelity and understanding : two qualifications that rendered him so very dear to him , and of which he had given such memorable proofs in the Scythian expedition ; and ...
... believe , that he set an extraordinary value upon a friend of his fidelity and understanding : two qualifications that rendered him so very dear to him , and of which he had given such memorable proofs in the Scythian expedition ; and ...
Pagina 32
... believe , that they should have the advantage in a naval battle . The place of their rendezvous was Lade , a small isle opposite to Miletus , where they assembled a fleet of three hundred and fifty - three vessels . At the sight of this ...
... believe , that they should have the advantage in a naval battle . The place of their rendezvous was Lade , a small isle opposite to Miletus , where they assembled a fleet of three hundred and fifty - three vessels . At the sight of this ...
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The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians ..., Volume 2 Charles Rollin Volledige weergave - 1830 |
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Pagina 110 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself : and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a floXxl, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Pagina 109 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
Pagina 316 - ... nature they be; and against too little regard for the soul, which ought to be the object of their affection. For I incessantly urge to you, that virtue does not proceed from riches; but, on the contrary, riches from virtue; and that all the other goods of human life, as well public as private, have their source in the same principle.
Pagina 85 - Themistocles taking him aside, told him that the design he had conceived, was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states which then lay in a neighbouring port, when Athens would assuredly become mistress of all Greece.
Pagina 110 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week : and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease...
Pagina 317 - Delium, the fear of death should at this time make me abandon that in which the Divine Providence has placed me, by commanding me to pass my life in the study of philosophy, for the instruction of myself and others, this would be a most criminal desertion indeed, and make me highly worthy of being cited before this tribunal as an impious man, who does not believe the gods. " Should you resolve to acquit me ; for the future, I should not hesitate to make answer, Atheaians, I honour and love you; but...
Pagina 317 - I should have been amongst the dead long ago, had I been concerned in the measures of the state, without effecting any thing to the advantage of myself or our country. Do not take it ill, I beseech you, if I speak my thoughts without disguise, and with truth and freedom. Every man who would generously oppose a whole people, either amongst us or elsewhere, and who inflexibly applies himself to prevent...
Pagina 325 - Soon after which, he breathed his last. Crito went to his body, and closed his mouth and eyes. Such was the end of Socrates, in the first year of the ninety-fifth Olympiad, and the seventieth of his age.
Pagina 115 - Lacedaemonians sent a second time to desire succours of the Athenians against the Messenians and Helots, who had seized upon Ithome. But when they came, fearing their boldness and gallantry, of all that came to their assistance, they sent them only back, alleging they were designing innovations. The Athenians returned home, enraged at this usage, and vented their anger upon all those who were...
Pagina 74 - Megarians, who were encamped upon a plain, suffered extremely by them ; and, in spite of all the vigour and resolution with which they defended themselves, they were upon the point of giving way, when a detachment of 300 Athenians, with some troops...